Themes/Skins

[Eadee]

Those were the last themes.

Here a list of all working themes:

* Core Theme: Bright and comfortable to read. Very similar to the default theme. (maybe unneccessary)
* Enterprise: Dark theme but also easy to read and not depressing dark.
* Blue Eyes: Light Blue theme with black writing. It seems to have all buttons, even Shop.The Header Image says Bryan Deakin.com. To my suprise it looks usable AND different to the default.
* Gone Fishin: Wooden planks and a lake in the background. Light blue. Seems to be working, though some Graphics seem to be a bit displaced.
* Astronomy: Seems to be working fine. Violett-blue theme but less aggressive than Stormfront v1. Even "home"-page works fine.
* The Killing: dark blue (or maybe dark cyan) theme. Seems to be working fine
* Catalysm: WoW-Theme, dark theme with light Scrolls as background for posts. Looks good, seems to be working.
* Minecraft: bright theme with minecraft-graphics here and there. Works fine.
* Black Ops: Dark Theme. Easy to read. Works fine.
* Happy new Year: Bright Theme with Orange and Blue. Works fine.
* Adk Halloween: Dark theme, Oranga Accents, easy to read. Works fine.
* Halloween I: it works, but navigation misses Icons and Quotes hurt the eyes.
* Ostara: Light Blue, cloudy Theme. works, but quotes just don't fit the theme.
* Thanksgiving: Warmly colored Theme, some brownish yellow (man Its hard to know colors outside of a 16color scheme). Works fine
* Christmas Carol: WInter-themed. with light blue and snowflakes. Icons and images displaced badly, but it works.
* SMF Pokemon: Pokemon theme, it really hurts the eyes with Green and red in contrast. Some Icons are missing, but the buttons exist. Its easy to read, but the background-colors kill me.
* Mayals: working, but every second post is almost impossible to read because its box is transparent and the theme uses a background with symbols on it. Light Brownish theme. "home" doesn't fit the theme but has all required links. Has two other variants that change the symbols in the background.
* Music: Bright theme with dark Background. Works fine and is easy to read.

A total of 18 working themes.

[Buster's Uncle]

Again, I should be able to fix missing icons easily, if tediously - does missing buttons mean not there at all, as opposed to missing button icons?

[Eadee]

if I write missin buttons, there are really no buttons to find. If I write Buttons are there but miss icons, then it is this way.

[Buster's Uncle]

Ah.  Thanks.

We should probably be pretty picky with an eye towards cutting down on the final 18.  It looks bad for Mayals - and if that's the Mayan one, Uno wanted to use it back when I installed a million, but didn't think it was workable.

[Eadee]

Allright, any guideline what is preferable to keep and what less?

[Buster's Uncle]

I going to have a look for myself and make executive decisions, based on whatever input I've gotten and my own impressions - just looking at each one is quite a big job, as you know.

The Shop stuff seems to be winding down, so maybe I can start today - we'll see.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm having the kind of problem I WANT to have, that people are posting enough, interesting enough, that I didn't get a lot of work done yesterday outside engaging in conversation.  -Which IS the work of AC2, in my capacity as host.

The two Shop issues I'd like to figure out how to fix, I can't find the files I need to alter on the server and need to appeal to the tech guys for guidance - I really ought to switch over to editing the Beginner's Getting-Started Strategy Guide next, but I'd rather begin tackling having a look at the themes first.  We'll see how fast I can get to that...

[BU Admin]

Hmmm.  This is just a test post in Core Theme.

[BU Admin]

Front Page button works and page shows, Reply page loads fine, all buttons seem to work -no pulldowns at the top of the page, though. Since this is just for my own investigation, I'll use a simple +/- = pass/fail grading, skipping Curve since that's the default.

+ Core Theme

[BU Admin]

+
Enterprise3 people are using this theme.[size=0pt]·[/size][/color][Use this theme][/size][size=0pt][/color]·[/size][/color][Preview theme][/size]

-Just trying to see if I can get the WYSIWYG thing to work, posting.  Guess not, for this...

[BU Admin]

-TechHead
 
WAY too many page-top buttons missing, like to the ROOT, fer chrissakes -had to paste the url for the root directory in from the BUncle account to report while in this theme- if I had more savy 'bout altering stuff like that, it might be different, but death is the sentence.  Not going to investigate any further in future obvious problems of the sort.

[BU Admin]

-Arcane Magic
-PitchBlack
-Sapphire
-Alienation
(Now, everything seems to have a Front Page button working, and I COULD simply add a Root hyperlink and label to the "Alpha Centauri and Beyond" banner at the top, but since I'm looking to take out the trash [and betcha these all miss a lot more buttons than that with such a fundamental design oversight], forget it.  Too bad, too - I LOVED the AlieNation TV show.)
-Metallic Abyss
-ice Stars
-Mesh
(I could add a left sidebar with all the missing buttons for that matter, but on half these turkeys you couldn't even read them w/o highlighting.  BTW, Valka - I DID look into that w/ Enterprise and I'm lost.  Just highlight, or switch to Killing Time; sorry.)
-Halloween
(A little hideous, but this one I'd be tempted to implement the workarounds [there's a link to a patches poll thread already in place in the sidebar, and thus, to the Root, which I used to get here] I've thought of and keep, because at least seems legible, if only I didn't need to shave it down to 10 themes or less to make various img uploads not a two-hour job any time I change anything.  At all.  Posting an update at this point just to test the Reply buttons, which are [mostly] present in the QUICK Reply box, if not the Reply Page you have to press an unlabeled button to get to...  I had to switch to default and do an edit to do the resizing.)

[Buster's Uncle]

Members strongly encouraged to have a look for themselves and comment - your pleas could possibly rescue something I've put on the Death List with a "-"prefix.

I'll put off deleting until late tonight, so DO have a look, but DO NOT DELAY about doing it, please...

[BU Admin]

-StormFront v1
+Blue Eyes
(Even the pull-downs work on the page-top buttons [better than Core and Enterprise, there] and the theme shows on the Front Page [if with the SMACX news column too narrow]!  Have to investigate the possible keepers more thoroughly, since I believe Eadee found much more than 10, so reporting now to check the Reply stuff.  Eh - the page width is borked, which makes this a maybe.  Pity, when it was doing so well.)

[BU Admin]

+GoneFishin
(Best pass of testing yet - Front Page looks great, buttons, pull-downs, everything but Icons I can/will upload to the theme showing right.  It even has the thread lable icons [taken from the default upload, I reckon] showing.  -Definite keeper, and in fact, this one is SO Rusty Edge that I'm gonna surprise him with it as soon as I've done that uploading.)